Chapter 1030

Dog Shit Luck is new to Fang Yuan. Spring Autumn Cicada’s exposure barely matters now, since Heavenly Court and the ten great ancient sects, and so effectively the whole world, already know of it. Land spirit offers time path methods to counter it, reasoning that Spring Autumn Cicada is now merely rank six with its owner known, and that no Gu worm is invincible, only Gu Masters are. Fang Yuan agrees, recalling that wisdom path had countered his time path rebirth once Shadow Sect deduced it, so Spring Autumn Cicada’s unique ability was never invincible either. ^{ch. 1030}

Central Continent’s Ming Tang valley is among the best places to produce light path Gu worms, a land of treasures incredibly rich in light path dao marks where a wild light path Immortal Gu forms almost every twenty years. It sits under Wind Cloud Manor and Heavenly Lotus Sect, two of the ten great ancient sects, and deep within it the hidden demonic path Gu Immortal, Unmoving Mountain Gong Sun Liang, wakes to a call. Ying Wu Xie, as Defy’s boss, asks to borrow his Immortal Gu. Gong Sun Liang hesitates, a fugitive hunted by Central Continent’s righteous path and above all the ten great ancient sects, who was saved from a near-fatal trap by a mysterious man and led into the secret organization Defy. Its members are known to each other only by numbers, and the help he has had from it is why he has not been caught until now. Codenames mark when a member joined and their standing in Defy, with Boss, its founder, at the top. Unable to leave Defy, he grits his teeth and agrees to the loan. ^{ch. 1030}

The same request reaches Great Heavenly Sword Sect’s Miao Jun and Miao Yue, sword path Gu Immortals suspicious of a boss who demands a loan on first contact. They had joined Defy hoping for help freeing their sect from Immortal Crane Sect’s vassal status, got none when Immortal Crane Sect lured away their third Gu Immortal and took the sect in hand instead, and refuse. They call the boss shameless. Ying Wu Xie, unable to borrow their Gu, smashes a table in fury. ^{ch. 1030}

Shadow Sect had created Defy secretly and carefully, but only as a low-priority side project: its members are neither otherworldly demons nor fate escapees fit to resist heaven’s will. With that main plan now failed, Ying Wu Xie must actually use Defy’s strength, and most members make excuses, Immortal Gu being precious and enforcement loose. Only unsupported demonic path Gu Immortals like Gong Sun Liang truly depend on Defy. Ying Wu Xie eventually borrows enough to suppress Fang Yuan’s self-detonating Gu worms, though his own losses to them are already severe, and he credits Fang Yuan for cutting them so decisively. He then uses the borrowed Immortal Gu to strip the fake will Fang Yuan left in his own mind. ^{ch. 1030}

Before he can go further and claim Fang Yuan’s Gu worms outright, Ying Wu Xie notices Hei Lou Lan sitting up, worried, quietly trying to reach treasure yellow heaven through connecting heaven Gu. He tells her to stop. Unlike Tai Bai Yun Sheng, she is not easily fooled, and had already grown suspicious of the body wearing Fang Yuan’s face acting strangely since he woke, holding back only because they needed Fixed Immortal Travel to escape first. A super Gu formation here blocks her connection completely, and failing to reach treasure yellow heaven makes her suspect him further. Ying Wu Xie then confesses outright: he is Ying Wu Xie, one of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s split souls, occupying Fang Yuan’s body, and Hei Lou Lan has only two choices, to die or to abandon Fang Yuan and join him. He judges her a high quality pawn, holding the Great Strength True Martial Physique and having escaped fate, though he would kill her without reservation and use her corpse to revive his current body should she refuse. With this Gu formation, he is fully confident of forcing her down. ^{ch. 1030}